I have used the wget open source utility to check that I can reach
particular web pages. I've driven it from the newer servmon daemon that
comes with NetView 7.1.4 but nvsniffer was also capable of running
scripts so it should work for you.
You can get wget from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
Here is the line I have in my servmon.conf (it has 1 extra field at the
end for status polling time, compared to a nvsniffer conf file):
isSkillsWWW|www.skills-1st.co.uk/|SkillsWWW|SkillsWWW|/usr/OV/conf/skills/servmon_wget_url.sh|/usr/OV/conf/skills/servmon_wget_url.sh|tino_netview|5
The second field is used to specify the URL you want to check. The same
shellscript is used both for discovery and status checking and it simply
drives the wget utility, returning a value of 2 for success and a value
of 4 for failure. The checking is run against the smartset called
tino_netview which is a smartset simply containing my NetView node. If
you want the full code sample, let me know and I will put it on the
NetView Tivoli User Group website.
Cheers,
Jane
Jorge Jiles wrote:
Netview 7.1.3
Solaris 8
For a while now we have been using nvsniffer to check availability of
http port (80) on some of our servers. Although this way of checking
has been good enough for us, now we need to deep a little further and
check not just the port, but also whether http pages load properly as
well. I believe the main concern is to test the rendering of a .cfm
page (marked up in ColdFusion)
How are Netview users out there doing this type of checking???
I was told that the bigbrother application has this capability, but I
would like to stay within the Netview environment. I have not check
nvsniffer potential in detail, but I hope something can be done with it.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Jorge A Jiles
Network Analyst
Computing & Network Services
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
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